4th of July weekend was pretty good, lots of hanging out with
friends and eating things. Oh, and you may
remember booze. That was really what the weekend was all about. Friday
night I got smasher...smashiered...more drunk than I'd ever been in my
life. And then Saturday night I got even more drunk than that. UV
Blue Raspberry vodka is a tool of Satan. Sunday was spent recovering. I
was never physically sick, but a night of drinking followed by a night of
drinkng followed by three hours of sleep made Monty sit still for most of
Sunday.

Queue or Stack?Morgion // 07.09.03 - 20.43

(The nights of drinking sans sleep also made Monty hang his head and look really pathetic. I felt vindicated. *smirk*)

Me, I'm a Stack. Task Number One is supplanted by a Tangential Information Search, which is in turn superceded by Ooh Pretty Website. Eventually I work my way back to square one, and it begins again.

Interested in how things turned out with Apple and my PowerBook? Well I got it back from the FNACT, and the screen scrape is no more. Furthermore, since they drug it out over two repairs, they had to replace some parts twice: the Top Case Assy and the LCD Bezel, Alum, Pnt (or, Aluminum Pint, as Monty endearingly referred to it).

However—that's right, we can't get through this without a caveat—in the lower-right hand corner of my screen, there is a pixel that is ill. It's not quite dead, more like it's an anti-pixel; on black backgrounds it appears lighter, and vice-versa. I haven't called Apple Customer Service yet because my will is attempting to regenerate after the sound thrashing.

09Jul03 (Monthenor): Sssh, don't tell Morgion. I paid Apple $20
to screw up one little pixel on Morgion's screen so it would
drive him crazy.

Farscape—gone. "Cost too much." </whiny bitch> The Invisible Man (I-Man) was gone long before that… just because, apparently… and it seems to have a large and vocal following, based on these recent Googles.

What's taken their place? Tracker: it sucks. The Dream Team—oh, wait, they're gone now too, aren't they? Awe, cry time. Of course, there are the Originals. Sci-Fi can't seem to understand this simple equation: more, cheap Sci Fi != less, good Sci Fi. This is one time when less good is more better.

I'd rather watch superior shows that loop more frequently… I'd probably even watch the really good episodes twice. That will never happen with a Sci-Fi Original; I'm willing to bet an internal organ on it.

10Jul03 (Monthenor): Morgion just convinced me to go to
Pirates
of the Caribbean: The Noun of the Adjective Noun. My distaste with
giving Disney money was countered by Morgion's assertion that I shouldn't
look at it as "supporting Disney, but as supporting Johnny
Depp's teeth." He's right, of course. Given a choice between giving
money to Disney or giving money to Johnny Depp's teeth, the gilded
masticators win every time.